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| “Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.” ― |
Splendor.
Pomp and circumstance – expectation
Quiet and dark – conversation
At times, I see where I miss the mark – where I need to return to a new page, a blank screen. What if splendor isn’t in the flashy. What if it is in the ordinary?
Advent is the season we prepare for the birth of Jesus. In Jesus, the love of the Holy One is revealed to the world – as God has done before. There was no news coverage of that birth, no parades, no silver, and gold. [Those gifts came later; celestial coverage led the way...]
Ordinary darkness.
Ordinary parents.
What if splendor is the Holy in the ordinary?
What if splendor is reciprocity – celebration … not competition or domination?
The way our Christian story goes – the Christ wasn’t born in *majesty* as we know it. Nor was the Christ clothed in imperial garments.
The splendor of the Holy Three – the Community of Love – is … freedom , interdependence, mutuality.
Advent for Christians is about the descent of the Divine – illuminating what already is – goodness initiated from darkness – interconnectedness.
Splendor – standing on the earth, walking the same trail as other siblings in nature, hearing in the silence – in the beginning, was an intimacy that held [and continues to hold] all things together – even now.
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